The practice is a member of the Medical Research Council’s General Practice Research Framework – a national group of general practices interested in research in many topics. If the practice takes part in a study we may pass anonymised information from your medical records or our practice computer to the researchers coordinating the study. If we do, the information will not be able to be linked back to you in any way and will be used only for research which has been approved by an Ethics Committee. We may also write to you to ask whether you or your children would consider helping with some research. If we contact you, you would be free to refuse to help at this point without your medical care for the practice being affected in any way.